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Maigret receives an anonymous phone call concerning the brutal murder of a woman and young child. The tip off concerns the woman's nephew, a mild-mannered man by the name of Gaston Meurant. Maigret remains unconvinced of the man's guilt and at his trial exposes some shocking truths about Meurant's private life that may prove his innocence.

A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust. It was all real: himself, the room, Andrée still lying on the ravaged bed. For Tony and Andrée, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hôtel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape.

When a tramp is recovered from the Seine after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to figure out just who wanted to kill him. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Dosser and Maigret and the Bum.

Qui a tiré un coup de revolver, en pleine nuit, dans l'hôtel particulier de la puissante famille Gendreau-Balthazar, rue Chaptal ? Tout jeune secrétaire du commissariat du quartier Saint-Georges, Jules Maigret se voit confier une enquête officieuse - car on n'attaque pas de front ces gens de la haute société aux relations influentes. Maigret va habilement débrouiller l'écheveau des secrets de la famille Gendreau.

At a dinner party, Maigret recounts an old case in which Adrien Josset is found guilty and executed for the murder of his wife, Christine. As the case develops under the controlling hand of the magistrate, all clues point to Josset's guilt, yet Maigret is left unconvinced following his one interview with him. Years after the case, Maigret still doubts the true identity of the murderer. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret Has Doubts.

When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth.

A once-wealthy family closes ranks when one of their own is shot, leaving Maigret - along with a troublesome new magistrate - to pick his way through their secrets.

Mit Kommissar Maigret hat Georges Simenon einen unsterblichen Ermittler geschaffen. Er versetzt sich in das Opfer und die Verdächtigen hinein, begibt sich in ihr Milieu, will die Menschen verstehen. Ganz gleich ob Maigret einen Betrüger entlarven soll, den Mord eines Handlungsreisenden aufklären muss oder den Spuren des gelben Hundes folgt, immer sind es Maigret ungewöhnlichen Ermittlungsansätze, die zur Lösung des Falles führen.

Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice. Mechanically, he had put his pince-nez down on the blotter and looked at it there with his large, short-sighted eyes. It is at that moment that the strange thing happens. One of the lenses, acting as a mirror, reflected the criss-cross, hatched ink marks which had dried on the blotter, and he could just make out a couple of words.

Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one could tell from what lay beneath some of his utterances. Yet alongside that, there was a naive, rather childish side to him. Maigret is savouring a beautiful spring morning in Paris when an aspiring film-maker draws his attention to a much less inspiring scene, one where ever-changing loyalties can have tragic consequences.

All'ispettore Lognon, detto dai colleghi il Lagnoso - lo Jellato da Maigret - uno che non è mai riuscito a ottenere una promozione, hanno sparato due colpi di pistola lasciandolo moribondo davanti a un palazzo di avenue Junot. Perché proprio lui? Quando Maigret e il giovane Lapointe scoprono che Lo Jellato frequentava quel palazzo tutte le sere per trascorrere la notte con Marinette, restano interdetti.

People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. The tenants he shares his building with try to avoid him. He is a Peeping Tom, a visitor of prostitutes, a dealer in unsavoury literature. He is also the prime suspect for a brutal murder that he did not commit. Yet Mr Hire's innocence will not stand in the way of those looking for a scapegoat as tragedy unfolds in this quietly devastating and deeply unnerving audiobook.

'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words with this person or that person. I go into the bars and cabarets where they give me a quarter bottle of Vichy without waiting for me to order anything.' An anonymous tip-off regarding the death of a restaurant owner sends Maigret into the world of Parisian nightlife, a notorious criminal gang and a man known as 'the Flea'. This novel has been pubished in a previous translation as Maigret and the Flea.

In pensione da un anno nella sua casa di Meung-sur-Loire, Maigret riceve la visita di Jean Maura, il figlio di un ricco uomo d'affari di New York. Con l'aiuto del suo notaio, Jean convince Maigret a imbarcarsi con lui alla volta della metropoli americana, dove teme che il padre sia in grave pericolo. Al loro arrivo, però, la situazione si complica: Jean scompare. Questa volta l'indagine di Maigret dovrà rimestare nel passato di amicizie turbolente, portando alla luce vecchi misfatti e tradimenti.

Una carta anónima advierte a Maigret de que está a punto de cometerse un asesinato. Tras una eficaz investigación, su equipo de la Policía Judicial descubre que la misiva proviene del domicilio de Émile Parendon, un reputado abogado que autoriza al comisario a registrar su lujoso apartamento de los Campos Elíseos.

Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in four new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatizationsThese new adaptations of classic stories find Maigret recreating four memorable cases for his creator Georges Simenon.In ‘Maigret: A Man’s Head’, a convicted man is allowed to escape, then followed by police investigating a double murder.

L'acteur français François Combe, jadis célèbre, vit depuis six mois à New York. Une nuit, dans un bar, il rencontre la belle Kay et, pour lui faire l'amour, loue une chambre d'hôtel. Une relation affective se noue et les deux noctambules restent ensemble quelque temps. Il apprend que Kay est la femme d'un ambassadeur, le comte Larski, et mère d'une petite fille qu'elle a abandonnée.

Four gripping dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon. The world’s best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about four intriguing cases in these full-cast dramatisations that have been specially adapted for radio from the original novels.

Predlagaem vashemu vnimaniyu audioknigu ZH. Simenona "Megrei staraya dama". Komissar Megre nosit davno vyshedshie iz mody kotelok i pal'to, ne rasstaetsya s trubkoj, predpochitaet dozhdlivuyu pogodu, obozhaet gret'sya u ognya i hodit', zalozhiv ruki za spinu. Mrachnyj, nemnogoslovnyj, on obladaet redkim darom vnushat' doverie, emu izvestny tajnye pruzhiny chelovecheskoj dramy. Razgadyvaya samye slozhnye prestupleniya, rasputyvaya samye prichudlivye intrigi, Megre rukovodstvuetsya odnim bezotkaznym principom: chtoby najti vinovnyh, nuzhno prezhde vsego ponyat' smysl ih postupkov.

Siamo a Batum, sul Mar Nero, nei primi anni di Stalin. Il nuovo console turco entra nel suo ufficio. Dà un’occhiata fuori e vede due persone affacciate alla finestra di fronte. Più tardi vedrà il punto rosso di una sigaretta nel buio di quella finestra. Avverte subito un invincibile disagio, in quella città desolante, dove tutto lo respinge, dove ogni significato è dubbio e sfuggente. E si sente preso in una rete: sguardi, mezze parole, contrattempi, scene intraviste. Continua a guardare le finestre di fronte, con maggiore curiosità di quella che mostrano gli altri a osservare lui.